escroc
English
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian scrocco, from Old High German *scurgo (attested in Old High German fiurscurgo (“fire-maker, stoker”); modern German Schurke, schüren), from Old High German scurgen.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛs.kʁo/
Audio (file)
- IPA(key): /ɛs.kʁɔ/ (older, now chiefly Belgium)
- Rhymes: -o, -ɔ
Noun
escroc m (plural escrocs)
- crook (a criminal who steals)
- 1991, Jean-Loup Craipeau, chapter 1, in Pin's panique, Éditions Casterman:
- Al Capin’s méritait son nom. Essayer de me vendre, à ce prix, un pin’s de chat ! Parole, en me prenant pour un pigeon, il tombait mal, cet escroc.
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- (in stories) baddy (evil character)
- 1838-1847, Honoré de Balzac, Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes, section V:
- De tout temps, en effet, la fille, héroïne de tant de vieux romans, fut la protectrice, la compagne, la consolation du grec, du voleur, du tire-laine, du filou, de l’escroc.
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Derived terms
- croque-escroc
- escroquer
- escroquerie
- escroqueur
- escroqueuse
Further reading
- “escroc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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